Author: Mary Anne SchimmelpenninckPublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The Principles of Beauty as Manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Character
Author: Mary Anne SchimmelpenninckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Sense of Beauty
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412838900
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The author of the introduction to this new edition, John McCormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather, beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that residues in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form, and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Victorian Reformation
Author: Dominic JanesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190452218
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more complicated form of ritual involving vestments, candles, and incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement was vehemently opposed by evangelicals and dissenters, who saw this as the vanguard of full-blown "popery." The disputed buildings, objects, and art works were regarded by one side as idolatrous and by the other as sacred and beautiful expressions of devotion. Dominic Janes seeks to understand the fierce passions that were unleashed by the contended practices and artifacts - passions that found expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in physical violence. During this period, Janes observes, the wider culture was preoccupied with the idea of pollution caused by improper sexuality. The Anglo-Catholics had formulated a spiritual ethic that linked goodness and beauty. Their opponents saw this visual worship as dangerously sensual. In effect, this sacred material culture was seen as a sexual fetish. The origins of this understanding, Janes shows, lay in radical circles, often in the context of the production of anti-Catholic pornography which titillated with the contemplation of images of licentious priests, nuns, and monks.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Willis's Price Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Treatise on Mills and Millwork
Author: William FairbairnCatalogue of Books in the Library of Queen's College, Belfast
Author: Queen's University of Belfast. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : College catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Further observations in several parts of surgery. To which is appended an original memoir or revieuw of the nature and treatmant of some unusual forms of eye disease
Author: Benjamin TraversCatalogue of books belonging to the library of the British factory, St. Petersburg
Author: Leningrad Brit. factory, librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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